Out of the past 12/21/14

1989

U.S. marshals have beefed up security at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau and in St. Louis after last week's bombing that killed a judge in Alabama and one this week in which a civil-rights lawyer died.

Winter officially -- and appropriately -- arrives with an invasion of bitterly cold arctic air that is expected to send temperatures to below zero overnight; steadily falling temperatures and strong northerly winds throughout the day make it feel like 20 below in Cape Girardeau.

1964

Members of the Cape County Civil Defense Sheriff's Patrol are called to stand by at the old Oak Ridge High School in the morning, as efforts are made to remove gas fumes that accumulated in the building over the weekend; classes for grades seven through 12, which normally meet in the old one-story brick building, are shifted to the school's gymnasium and other Oak Ridge school classrooms.

Cape State College is allotted by the Missouri Commission on Higher Education $51,556 in federal funds toward the construction of a new language arts building at Pacific Street and Normal Avenue.

1939

If coach Don Faurot of the University of Missouri accepts a contract at another university as reported in press dispatches, coach E.R. Stuber of the Teachers College here will get top consideration as his successor.

M.G. Campbell has taken out a city building permit for a storage building he is constructing south of his Campbell Mattress Co. factory, 6 S. Hanover St.; the building will be 50-by-30 feet and will have metal roofing and metal clad walls.

1914

Dr. John D. Porterfield Jr. has purchased the lot adjoining the Park Theater on the east side in the 200 block of Broadway; for several months he has been dickering with John F. Williams, liveryman, for the sale; at some point, he plans on remove the small house on the lot and build a first-class business house.

Major Giboney Houck and some of his men went after the municipal Christmas tree yesterday and succeeded in getting one of the large pines from Charles Blattner's farm; however, A.M. Tinsley takes one look at the specimen this morning and decides it must be replaced; it was badly mangled in transportation to the courthouse.

-- Sharon K. Sanders